ATV Today: 15.09.1972: Old age pensioners protest march, Coventry

Summary

Old age pensioners protest march through Coventry to demand an increase in their pensions.

Year:

1972

Duration:

0:02:58

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Tony Maycock talks to the elderly marchers about their demands of a ten pound a week pension. Views of the protest march with pensioners holding banners and chanting 'Heath Out'. The protestors congregate in the Coventry shopping precinct. Interview with Leslie Huckfield MP who was on the march who says that the government has created a society where people have to fight for themselves. Interview with the Labour MP for Rugby, William Price why is sympathetic with the demands.


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